Read the article "Farming in smaller spaces works." Can you make a connection from this article to something else you learned this year? Please use evidence from the text to support your response. Please respond to at least 2 other student entries.
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Celeste
3/19/2015 07:41:45 am
I can make a slight connection to the garden that we've been doing with Sara. We planted some seeds and many small plants, this is somewhat like the vertical gardens because we're planting stuff in a small place. "Vertical gardens let farmers grow crops without taking up much space."
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Ryan
3/19/2015 07:57:38 am
I agree Celeste when we worked with Sarah we were planting plants in a tight space or enclosed space.
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julian#WHAT THE WHAT#$$$
3/19/2015 08:43:15 am
I AGREE CELESTE, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A TOUGH SPACE TO GROW THE PLANTS IN, THEY STILL TURNED OUT TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
Minerva
3/19/2015 08:44:40 am
I agree Celeste. When we worked with my mom on planting native plants, we were using a 2' by 6' foot box and 2 walls to plant about 30 plants. (I estimated and did the math.)
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Elena
3/19/2015 10:32:47 am
I agree. The plants are small and do not take up so much space that we need a 2 foot extention. AND minerva good estimation!
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alex
3/21/2015 08:21:29 am
I agree with you Celeste but the garden we are Sarah Harris is not verticle but you are stil right about it being a small place
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Ryan
3/19/2015 08:09:08 am
Yes I can make a connection. Just like Celeste said when we worked with Sarah we had to work in a tight space. Yet it still turned out to have beautiful plants that were growing. Also to help the plants we would add rocks around them.
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I agree Ryan. WE can make the plants beautiful
3/19/2015 08:45:49 am
I agree Ryan. We can make the plants beautiful even small spaces. It just matters if the plants are cared for correctly.
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Natasha
3/19/2015 08:46:56 am
Sorry! The above comment was from me. My computer just had a glitch.
Cara
3/19/2015 09:20:14 am
I agree, Ryan. We had a really small space to plant things.
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alex
3/21/2015 08:17:29 am
I agree with you Ryan. I said the exact same thing for my conectoin exept about the pocket parks. Any small space of land will do like our class garden.
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Minerva
3/19/2015 08:38:56 am
I can make a connection to something I learned this year: planting with my mom. We had a 2 foot by 6 foot box and 2 walls to plant 5 native plants, about 10 pots of wildflowers, and 6 succulents. I can also make a connection to my friends, Cynthia and Sabrina. They live in a small apartment on the 6th floor of The Textile Center in downtown L.A. They do NOT have room for a garden, and yet, they have a table that is almost as good. A small white table, about a foot in diameter and half as tall as a bar stool. On it they have many blue, pink, and orange plastic bowls and cups in which they have planted quite a few plants. I like the way that they have managed to grow plants in an urban space. Of course, at home we grow plants too, but we have a lot of land. In an apartment, it would be hard to even grow about 5 plants, like Sabrina and Cynthia did.
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Wolfvoelker6789
3/19/2015 08:43:28 am
I agree with you both Minerva and Ryan. Our class has been working on our garden that is consealed in a small space proving that we can grow many things in a small place.
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Minerva
3/19/2015 08:49:01 am
By 5 I meant 9 native plants.
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Minerva
3/19/2015 08:50:07 am
About 30 plants in all. WOW!!!!
charlotte
3/19/2015 01:51:53 pm
I agree Minerva, you can still plant plants in a tiny space. I like how you made a text to class connection AND a text to self connection.
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Julian -- is -- AWESOME!!!!
3/19/2015 08:39:24 am
Yes, i can make a connection from this year at eagle rock. like celeste and Ryan said, the tight space that we worked in was very small, but somehow, we managed to get the plants in shape and squeeze them in. here is evidence. "they hope vertical gardens can help grow enough food. farmers can grow food without taking up much space."
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Wolfvoelker6789
3/19/2015 08:40:51 am
I can make a connection to this article. My connection is that in our class garden, we have been growing many good sized plants none grow food though. But in a small space like ours it can definitely prove that you can grow a lot of vegetables in a small space.
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Natasha
3/19/2015 08:43:59 am
I agree Wolf. We can definitely grow a lot of vegetables in a small space. After all, we DID grow about ten plants in a small space.
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Benicio Curiel
3/19/2015 09:09:37 am
I agree Wolf, because our garden has many similarities to the tight spaces that the farms have to be grown in.
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Aidan
3/19/2015 12:04:45 pm
I agree with you Wolf because we definitely grew a lot of plants in a small area and we can maybe make more.
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Natasha
3/19/2015 08:42:06 am
I can make a connection to what we are doing with Minerva's mom, Sarah Harris. We are planting in small spaces, like the people in Bangladesh. Even though we have a small space, the plants are growing like crazy. We put rocks aroung our plants, and the gardeners water the plants about once every week. Our plants are now more beautiful than ever. We don't have a vertical garden, but we have a pretty tight space. We also had the plants growing and then transferred them to our garden. These people have to start from scratch. We also don't take up much space, exactly like the Bangladesh people do. " Farmers can grow vegetables without taking up much space."
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Minerva
3/19/2015 08:47:19 am
Great, Natasha! I like your response. The Laurel Sumac and the Terra Seca Black Sage are doing great. So is the Hearsts Ceanothus. But Sara has no H.
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Elena
3/19/2015 10:30:23 am
Laurel Sumac and the Terra Seca Black Sage and Hearsts Ceanothus! They are the best out of the garden!
Benicio Curiel
3/19/2015 09:07:08 am
I agree with you Natasha because our garden is pretty similar to the big farms.
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Cara
3/19/2015 09:19:18 am
I agree. Even though we have such a small area to plant things, we can still plant many.
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jay
3/19/2015 09:59:02 am
I agree with you Natasha because we did a project with Minervas Mom.
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Connie
3/19/2015 10:15:28 am
I agree, Natasha. We did have many plants in the class garden. And just like the article that was written, our plants weren't taking up that much space, too.
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Elena
3/19/2015 10:29:10 am
You are very correct! We water riparian on Mondays and Fridays because thay are used to floods not drizzles. And we water the desert plants every friday beacuse they are used to no water. And with a small space they are growing as much as they would in the wild. I agree with you very much.
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Sarah :p
3/19/2015 01:56:53 pm
I agree because we are planting in small spaces and we are planting and even though we have a small space, the plants are growing like crazy. I don't actually remember the plant is, but it is in high and dry, and it is really dry and little.
Benicio Curiel
3/19/2015 09:18:22 am
I can make a connection to the the article. It is our class garden itself. Our garden has native plants that aren't the same as the food but we do fit the whole thing in a tight space. I would say the planting box is about 6 feet by 3 feet. It is is definitely not as big as the farms, but they are both very similar. The article said that "Vertical gardens grow upward." Our garden doesn't grow up but it is very similar with the small space.
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Jay
3/19/2015 09:57:43 am
I agree with you Ben because we did do a class garden and it was in a tight space.
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Aidan
3/19/2015 12:10:10 pm
I agree with you Ben because we were able to manage to grow so many plants in such little places.
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Cara
3/19/2015 09:18:31 am
I can make a connection. We did a science project where we needed to plant some seeds in a small terrarium. We were able to plant a few seeds in such a small space. Also, our class garden has plants in a very small area. But, we were able to fit about 6 plants with rocks surrounding them. In the passage it says, "......This destroys the soil and leaves less land for farming."
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Ashley
3/19/2015 10:08:06 am
I agree with you Cara because if you have a lot of salt in your garden your garden will not grow anything. Not even a tiny sprout will come out of your garden.
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Connie
3/19/2015 10:08:37 am
I agree. The class did plant plants such as corn. I also agree about the part which you wrote about the class garden.
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Ryan
3/19/2015 10:29:23 am
I agree Cara in our class we made a terrarium which we had to grow plants in a small space.
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Sasha
3/19/2015 01:13:38 pm
I agree with you cara because the seeds were clunked up together!
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Jay the soilder
3/19/2015 09:52:33 am
I can make a connection because in science we planted plants in terrariums & they were like boxes so they were small.We left the plants for a long time like 3 weeks.Once we opened the terrariums a couple were dead but a lot of them were alive.Each group planted 6 plant for my group about 2 of them died. It was in the winter so it was cold and rainy with storms so it must have been had for the plants to survive. We also did that with Sarah Harris. The place we planted the plants was little it was a long time ago and the plants survived.
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Arlon
3/19/2015 09:53:34 am
A connection I could make to the story is the California Mudslides.Why it reminds me or has a connection with each other is because in the story,it says they have massive floods.In California Mudslides,they also have lots water problems.
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Gael
3/19/2015 11:39:30 am
I agree Arlon because in the California Mudslides article they had water problems as well and Bangladesh has floods and salt problems
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Connie
3/19/2015 10:03:22 am
A connection I can make is that my class has a garden. Minerva's mom helped us with it. In the text, the author wrote, "Her fruits and vegetables included pumpkins, squash, cauliflower, tomatoes, spinach, and chili peppers." My class's garden too included different plants. One of them is black sage. Also, different plants need different amounts of water. In the article, it was written that plants need different kinds of soil in order to grow. For example, salt soil is not good for growing crops. Sometimes, the plants/crops can't even grow with salt soil.
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Ashley
3/19/2015 10:06:18 am
I agree with you Connie because plants need these to survive LAWN. As known as light, air, water and nutrients to grow, not salt.
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Ashley Kim
3/19/2015 10:03:58 am
My connection with something to do this year is when we learned how to make a native plant garden with Minerva's mom, Sara Harris. Just like the people in Bangladesh, we planted plants. But the thing that is different is that they plant fruits and vegetables but we planted native plants. Another thing that is different is that we planted fully grown plants but they plant seeds to plant their vertical garden. We take up more space for our garden than the vertical garden in Bangladesh.
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Gael
3/19/2015 11:36:52 am
I agree with you on that Ashley when you say that the terrariums that we did only had small native plants because if we had big plants the plants would have to be in a bigger container
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jacob
3/19/2015 10:06:39 am
what project reminded me is the terrariums we had to keep care of the plant. And so does the people in Bangladesh they keep plant and then when there is a flood the salt water come and it stay there and it makes it harder for the farm worker to grow there crop. i will show the evidence from the text it said "When the weather is bad, the rivers get too full. Then the water overflows. This sends salty water flooding over the land. The salt soaks into the soil. Even once the water dries up, the salt stays behind. The soil becomes unusable and farmers cannot grow enough food." it was like our terrarium. when we didn't water the plant the plant was dead and it was very sad.
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JORDEN
3/19/2015 10:18:31 am
I can make two connections.One is what we were doing with Sarah by growing plants in a small space like a vertical garden.The other connection is that when we were doing the article "New ways to grow traditional native crops" it said that they were growing the crops in a small plot/area that is like a vertical garden.
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Elena
3/19/2015 10:20:37 am
I think the authors perspective is about why the verticals gardens help and how much delay on growing plants on lower grounds is for them. " There are many floods in Bangladesh. When the weather is bad, the rivers get too full. Then the water overflows. This sends salty water flooding over the land. The salt soaks into the soil. Even once the water dries up, the salt stays behind. The soil becomes unusable and farmers cannot grow enough food." Bangladesh has many floods so that is not helpful. They have 156 million people living there, almost half of the population of the US. I agree with the authors perspective because pointing out how much the vertical gardens help informs other places where this happens to use it. I also agree with the author on how the delay of the salt in the past is a month delay of feeding the 156 million people. "Shobitha Debna is a 35-year-old mother in Chandipur. She has a vertical garden. It takes up a small corner of her dirt yard. Each season, it produces pumpkins, gourds, green beans, eggplant, beets, carrots, cabbage and more." This invention will help many lives. Including the 156 million people in Bangladesh.
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Elena Adding something to my entry
3/19/2015 10:24:59 am
I NEED TO ADD SOMETHING!~!
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Cara
3/19/2015 10:35:31 am
I agree, Elena. But Mrs. Chenu was asking for the connection, not the author's prospective.
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nola
3/19/2015 11:30:12 am
I can make a connection to what I learned this year-planting with Sara/another newsla. When we planted outside in our garden with Sara it got really crowded. It crisscrossed with both people and plants, mostly tight with plants though. We had a couple of succulents, black sage(which is doing really well), and some wild flowers. We had to do a lot in a tight space. "FARMING IN SMALLER SPACES WORKS" This is the title of the article. It is what I made a connection to, because we did it, we planted all of the plants, and it worked. My second connection is to "Vertical gardens like Debna's produce a lot of extra food. It really helps villagers in Bangladesh. Many people there live on just a few dollars a day." This reminds me of the past newsla`s we have done. It reminds because the farmers are pore and it says that the people live off of a couple of dollars a day. "It is a huge problem. Bangladesh is one of the world’s most crowded countries. There are 156 million people in Bangladesh. That is almost half as many as in the United States. And all of them live in an area about the size of Iowa." I can make one last connection to the article. It is that I used to live in Road Island, Road Island is the smallest state in the United States. So I know what it is like to feel a little bit cramped. I would use vertical gardens too.
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Gael
3/19/2015 11:31:28 am
I think the author's point of view is that he is a farmer that uses vertical gardens and also someone who thinks vertical gardens are a good way to grow crops in Bangladesh. I can make a text to article review because the author keeps talking about vertical gardens and how people who find them useful use them also how he or She talked about the article like he or she was a farmer using vertical gardens.
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Jaya
3/19/2015 11:33:24 am
I can make a connection to what we have been doing with Sara (Minerva's mom). We have a very small area to grow plants and flowers in but we make it work. We plant native plants and flowers in small pots. A difference is that the people in Bangladesh were planting food like fruits and vegetables and we plant native plants. Another connection I can make is in our terrariums. This year in science we had to grow plants in very small terrariums. The terrarium is like a mini garden which was basically the point in the science lesson.
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Sasha
3/19/2015 01:10:52 pm
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Aidan
3/19/2015 11:59:36 am
I can totally make a connection one is the garden we are making with Sara I really love the garden it is total beautiful. My class is really doing a great job on watering them. I really loved making the garden it was really fun. The second thing that relates to this article is that little garden we all made with our old science group. It was really fun I really enjoyed it. The worst part was when our two gardener never did their job I still remember the two gardeners they never ever did that job. Also at my grandparents house we have a porch and we have fruit trees and we are growing plants and sometimes I have to pick the weeds. We grow healing plants and vegetables. I really love gardening it really fun I wish I could be a gardener like Minerva. P.S sorry if I spelled your name wrong😀😀😀😀😀
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Sasha (Sauciur)
3/19/2015 01:12:14 pm
I agree with you Aidan because the terrariums were also a great connection to this article!
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Violet
3/19/2015 12:53:08 pm
I can make a connection to when i learned things that relate to what we are learning from Minerva , a spelling test, and from previous article . I learned from Minerva that you should water it by LITTLE floods or don't water it at all . This relates to the article because the plants in Bangladesh are getting BIG floods not little floods .Also these plants are getting sprinkles of the rain from when it dose rain, and the sprinkles create little floods which is all the plants need . Not little and big floods. If it was a vertical garden in the first place it would only be getting the little floods , not the little floods and the big floods . So technically what ever was causing the big floods ( either the rain or the river caused it ) was going against what Minerva told me and will tell the new gardeners .
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Sarah:)
3/19/2015 01:21:07 pm
You were right, terrace does relate to the article. It means an area of ground on the side of a hill that has a flattened top in order to grow things. The only thing is, a terrace is a hill, a vertical garden is a tiny little garden bed with a thing surrounding it. Sorry that I said thing, I did not no the for it
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Sasha
3/19/2015 01:09:40 pm
I make a connection to the terrariums we made earlier this school year in science.the corn plant grew very tall and somewhat very crockett and off to the side. However the barley grew short and a little chubby. Also the terrarium is very small with a limited space so we had to crouch all of the seeds together and I think the reason that the corn did not grow perfectly is because seeds were touching other seeds. And like it said in the article vertical gardens would produce more space for the crops.
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Sarah :p
3/19/2015 01:10:02 pm
I can connect the article, "Farming in Smaller Spaces Works" with the garden in our class. This relates because we grow plants in a small garden bed. In Bangladesh they have small spaces to grow fruits and vegetables, plus they have floods so its harder for them to plant. Some evidence from the text is " And all of them live in an area about the size of Iowa. Growing enough food for all of those people is a challenge. Losing land because of flooding makes things even harder." Another thing I can connect in the article and the class is that a lot of the plants' soil cannot have stuff in it. If someone dumped something salty in the soil, the plants wouldn't grow, like when the article said," To grow vegetables, the soil has to be just right." More evidence from the article is,"This sends salty water flooding over the land. The salt soaks into the soil. Even once the water dries up, the salt stays behind. The soil becomes unusable and farmers cannot grow enough food." I hope that this works out for Bangladesh so they can have a lot of food for their people. :)
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charlotte
3/19/2015 01:47:07 pm
I agree with you, and I can connect our class garden to the article too, but I don't remember learning about how salt prevents plants from growing in class.
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charlotte
3/19/2015 01:40:23 pm
I can make a connection with the article to when we learned about how pesticides prevent farmers from farming as quick as they'd like. Sometimes, pesticides are sprayed on the crops while farmers are still working. This can make lots of them sick or can irritate their skin, which can make their job go a lot slower. Farming in Bangladesh can be prevented too, because of floods. The floods put salt into the soil which prevents the crops from growing. In the text, it says, "Salt is a big problem for farmers in Chandipur." I can also make a connection with when we garden with Sarah Harris, and we planted all of our plants in that one tiny area. Even though it's a small area, it still plants a lot of plants. In Bangladesh, they have these small, above ground containers that they put the soil and the crops in so that salt water can't get to them during floods. In the text, it says, " The containers are usually small, still they can produce a lot of food."
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Gavin
3/19/2015 02:54:17 pm
I can make to the article because when my class learned about how pesticides prevent farm workers from working fast as the would want to.I learned also that pesticides sprayed on some crops while farm workers are working and that is very bad because it can cause sickness.If you farm in Bangladesh,it can be stopped because of the flood around ,the floods put soil in water and that causes plants to stop growing.In the text it said that said is an issue for the farmers in Chandipur and I can connect to that because MHL's(Minerva is AWESOME),her mom and our class planted a mini garden with only a little bit of area to plant it in.Even though it was small,we were still able to plant about 6 plants in the garden and in Bangladesh they have small above ground containers and the put the crops and soil in so the salt water cant get inside of them and ruin the during floods.In the text it said that the containers are small,but they can still produce a lot of food.
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alex
3/21/2015 08:12:09 am
I can definnetly can make a text to self coonection about something we did this year. With Sarah Harris Minerva's mom we started to do pocket parks. She said we just needed any little spot of land. It not might be verticle or on our roofs but we could find a LITTLE space
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Tommy
5/21/2015 11:19:19 am
I can make a connection from the article to what we have been doing this year in Sharah's garden also know as Minerva's mom. What we did is to put our plants in a small space of dirt just like the farmers did. It was small but I was surprised it could fit a couple of plants.
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